LIFE Blue Natura Andalucía
Regional Government of Andalusia – Regional Ministry for Environment and Land Management
Spain 2015-2019
The project has highlighted the need to identify and quantify blue carbon sinks in Andalusia, including specific coastal habitats such as salt marshes and seagrass meadows, and to assess the environmental services they can provide.
It also proposed to explore and promote existing initiatives to finance projects to conserve and restore blue carbon habitats as part of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, with a particular focus on carbon offset markets.
Expected results:
- Estimation of carbon stocks and fluxes of Posidonia oceanica sinks in the Andalusian Mediterranean, marine phanerogam sinks in the Bay of Cádiz, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Odiel Marshes, and marsh sinks in the Bay of Cádiz and the Odiel Marshes.
- Assessment of the environmental services provided by these carbon sink habitats in terms of climate change mitigation.
- Define conservation and revegetation projects by selecting the most valuable and/or threatened areas.
- Construction of models to describe the dynamics of these sinks, their capacity, time and maximum rate of accumulation, and even the net rate of CO2 release in the event of habitat destruction.
- Development of tools to help implement sinkhole conservation strategies.
- Creation of a network of trust to ensure the participation of companies and administrations in the carbon market, which in the medium term will ensure the reduction of emissions by protecting the best blue carbon sinks in our territory.
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